On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 03:03:36PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:> Adrian Bunk wrote:>> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:>> >>> On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:>>> >>>> Constantine A. Murenin wrote:>>>> >>>>> This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code >>>>> licensing.>>>>> >>>> What myth? The myth that Theo understands dual licensing?>>>> >>> Reyk's code was never dual licensed, so it's not like it even matters>>> to the original dispute.>>> >>>> It's no longer dual licenced in the FreeBSD tree because the FreeBSD >> people removed the GPL choice of the dual licenced code 3 months ago.>>>> So all of Theo's accusations of people breaking the law by making this >> dual licenced code GPL-only apply as well to the FreeBSD people...>> >> Sigh, why actually check the facts when you can make them up. The code in > question is my code. It has my copyright (modulo bits shared with onoe-san > who was consulted on the switch from dual-bsd/gpl to bsd only in freebsd).

The latter is the code by Video54 Technologies?

> Of course what was amusing was how after I changed the license on the > current code in freebsd certain folks retroactively applied the license > changes to code that was 3 years old.>> But is there a point to all this nonsense? I dual-licensed the code so > folks could adopt and use it however they saw fit. As I've said before I > don't care what people do with the work I give away so long as they don't > claim it's their own.

Fully agreed. :-)

>>> That said, I don't see what exact wording you consider inaccurate.>>> >>>> Both the FreeBSD and Linux people draw the logical conclusion that this >> "Alternatively" means everyone can always choose to remove one of the two >> choices alternatively offered.>>>> According to Theo, that is "breaking the law"...>> I've yet to see "FreeBSD people" speak up so again you're just spouting > jibberish. I am speaking up as the author of the code that set the dual > license in place. I have the definitive say and I have said that any of my > code that is dual-licensed can be made gpl only.

Sorry, this has been a thinko on my side:

If noone except you and onoe-san made any contributions to this code that were non-trivial enough for automatically giving its author a copyright on his contributions (whatever this means in various jurisdictions...) it was indeed an author-only change.

> Sam

cuAdrian

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